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...reform were timid. Lula's victory in 2002 panicked Wall Street and the Brazilian élite. But instead of defaulting on Brazil's foreign debt or busting the budget, as they feared he would, Lula embraced one of the few positive legacies of Brazil's royalist roots: deliberate, negotiated consensus-building. It's a hallmark of Brazil's widely respected diplomatic corps - and it tempered Lula even when he was a metal-workers union boss in the 1970s. Unlike more radical Latin leftists, such as Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, Lula "was always a negotiator," says union...
...What to do? Actually, there's a consensus within the Obama Administration about how to approach the Pakistan part of the problem. The policy might be described as comprehensive diplomacy accompanied by lots of money. The diplomatic task is to nudge India and Pakistan, who nearly came to an agreement in their eternal Kashmir dispute in 2007, toward a lessening of tensions in the hope that the Pakistani army will turn to the struggle against al-Qaeda and the Taliban...
...document prescribes relatively few recommendations that had been reached unanimously by the committee. Instead, the bulk of the 40-page report consists of an “open issues” section which describes the discussion points upon which the committee had not yet reached a consensus, in addition to an internal review produced by three UC members.Though the report did not bring closure to many long-standing debates about the UC’s structure, some conclusions were reached. In what is widely considered to be the most significant recommendation, the Dowling Report proposed restructuring the student-faculty committees...
...skills as an investor do not extend to picking companies that will do well in a rough period. If other brilliant men in the investing world like George Soros, Wilbur Ross, and Julian Robertson did not see things essentially the same way, optimists could argue that there is no consensus among the great investors...
...general consensus has been that she acted wisely in seeking a peaceful resolution to the crisis. The mutiny began in the early hours of Feb. 25, with sounds of gun-fire heard coming from the BDR headquarters in the heart of the capital Dhaka, where some 4,000 BDR troops were gathered, along with approximately 160 officers (temporarily asigned from the army to command the border security force). The occasion for the convocation was a durbar, or gathering of troops, the previous night. After over 24 hours of intense negotiation and the offer of a general amnesty - followed...